Rick Perry drives a BMW, hates snakes

Gov. Perry speaks at the Polk County Republican Party fall fundraiser dinner at the Embassy Suites in Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013(AP)

AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry, back in Iowa as he thinks about another run for president, sat down with the Des Moines Register for a light and quick Q&A.

Among the tidbits:

–His phobia is snakes.

–He has a 2000 BMW, 5 series.

–The most intense year of his life intellectually was during pilot training because he knew he had to “really buckle down” (insert a thought here about his disastrous run for the 2012 presidential nomination).